Bromberg sought to create exaggerated versions of rappers like Noname and Rapsody, while Osman cites Leikeli47 and Lauryn Hill as additional inspirations. A part of the series’ central conflict is that Shawna’s lyricism at first is intellectually over-the-top - at one point, she writes a verse from the perspective of a student loan. “Dreezy wrote all of Shawna’s early raps, her conscious raps,” says Osman. Raedio put great artists together to create these songs.” (Along with acting, she is a rapper herself.) “But for the most part, the songs were presented to us. “Once we got in the studio, we were allowed to play around with it,” KaMillion adds. He was on set during production of “Rap Sh!t” to continue shaping the music to the characters. “We brought in people that we felt really spoke to the voices of the characters in the show, and put them together based on the briefs - which were, because Issa and Syreeta were writing in real time and working with them,” Pierre tells Variety.
Then, at a “camp” in Los Angeles, a group of different rappers and songwriters came together to create the beginnings of each of Shawna and Mia’s raps. This process was headed by Sarah Bromberg and Philippe Pierre, the Raedio vice presidents who served as music supervisors on “Rap Sh!t.” They had weekly meetings with showrunner Syreeta Singleton to check on how the writing of the show was progressing, and developed briefs outlining the moods and goals of each song accordingly.
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